Like... from Latin? How did it develop and begin?
2006-09-12 13:51:49 · 13 answers · asked by Jessie 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Romans spoke Latin. They conquered the ppl living in Spain that had a language of their own and "convinced" them to learn Latin (it was used in administration - so they had to learn it in order to do business). These 2 languages slowly mixed... then you have hundreds of years in which the Spanish conquered and got conquered by ppl speaking other languages. These languages "contaminated" each other and new foreign words entered into the daily language of the Spaniards (from Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, French, English, etc.) and the result of all this exchange is the today's Spanish language.
2006-09-12 13:58:20 · answer #1 · answered by Marble Magic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of Spanish and Italian, alot of English, and a splash of French come from Latin from Etruscan and Greek. Each language is shaped through geographical identity, historical events, and the invasions/interactions with other languages.
Nations with a limited amount of any of these languages often die or become severely crippled by an inability to create new words. Symbol based languages such as Korean and Japanese are examples.
By the way, if you have the opportunity, learn the Latin prepositions - they will rapidly increase your vocabulary.
2006-09-12 13:57:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Romance languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, comprise all languages that descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
All Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic) descend from Vulgar Latin.
Despite multiple influences from pre-Roman languages and from later invasions, the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of all Romance languages are predominantly derived from Vulgar Latin. As a result, the group shares a number of linguistic features that set it apart from other Indo-European branches. In particular, with only one or two exceptions, Romance languages have lost the declension system of Classical Latin and, as a result, have a relatively rigid SVO sentence structure and make extensive use of prepositions
2006-09-12 13:55:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a dialect in Catabria, Spain, then It was spread to the kingdom of Castile. That dialect plus latin, became the spanish language.
2006-09-12 14:09:25 · answer #4 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spanish like French, Italian, Portuguese, and portions of English is derived from Latin.
2006-09-12 13:53:29 · answer #5 · answered by TiM 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a Romance language,along with Italian,French and Portuguese,derived from Latin.
2006-09-12 13:53:08 · answer #6 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are right it comes from Latin, the Romans conquered
the peninsula and called it IBERIA
2006-09-12 14:51:51 · answer #7 · answered by opaalvarez 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All language is derived from Latin...some closer then others... asa lama lakim
2006-09-12 13:55:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From old TJ to East L.A.
2006-09-12 14:00:42 · answer #9 · answered by Mr Smarty Pants 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spain
2006-09-12 13:57:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋